Blackout Poetry

Discover. Deface. Reinvent.

Pieces by Emma Paoli.

Blackout poetry is widely considered as the creation of author, illustrator and web-designer Austin Kleon in 2005. It was used as a technique to overcome writers block, and he started to form brief pieces of writing with only a sharpie and a newspaper. Its popularity has grown incredibly since, with creatives fascinated by the idea of creating something profound from the mundane, or defacing a piece they hold dear in an attempt to breathe a different kind of life into it.

Emma is from Florence, Italy. She is a graduate of the Media and English BA at Goldsmiths.